Distinguished Teaching Award Presented to Laura Slatkin

Gallatin Professor One of Six NYU Faculty Members to Receive Prize

Gallatin professor Laura Slatkin has received the New York University Distinguished Teaching Award for 2011-2012. Established in 1987, the award is given annually to outstanding full-time faculty members in recognition of their exceptional teaching, both within and outside the classroom.

Slatkin has a bachelor of arts in classics from Harvard and a master of arts from the University of Cambridge, also in classics, as well as a doctorate in classical philology from Harvard.

Her research and teaching interests include ancient Greek and Roman poetry, particularly epic, lyric and drama; wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern antiquity; gender studies; anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world; and cultural poetics.

Slatkin’s courses have included “Gender in Antiquity;” “Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Wisdom Traditions;” “Ancient Reflections in a Time of Modern War;” “Medea and Beloved;” “Classical Drama and its Influences;” and most recently “Antigone(s): Ancient Greece/Performance Now” and “The Iliad and its Legacies in Drama.”

Her book, The Power of Thetisand Selected Essays, was published last year by the Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press. She is currently a visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where she previously taught and where she received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.